Sentences with phrase «education of a few students»

Vouchers undermine this vital function, however, by diverting desperately needed public resources away from the public school system to fund the education of a few students at private schools — without offering any actual reforms.

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«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education traEducation, a higher education traeducation trade group.

Few students from the bottom half of their class at Harvard pursued an education in science or math.

A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.

Yes, there's nothing more principled than a candidate like Ron Paul who wants to further cut taxes for the rich, get rid of subsidies for student loans, get rid of the department of education and the environmental protection agency, and end aid to starving countries in Africa, just to name a few.

Every student who graduates constitutes a triumph; so few Ecuadorians complete college - level education that the title Licenciado («One with a college degree») is still used in front of people's names with as much solemnity as others might use «Doctor.»

My experience with professional growth groups for theological students over the last decade has convinced me that the quality of professional services could be raised significantly in a few years if growth groups were used widely in professional education.

During ten years in high school and college ministry and education, including two years of ministry in a residence hall of undergraduates, I met very few students who wrestled with the claims of the New Atheists in any depth.

Whereas a liberal arts education may provide some basis for viewing the global economy critically and making judgments as to how one wants to relate to it, very few students in universities are exposed to that kind of reflection.

Data from the Education Department's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System tells us now that fewer than 12 percent of students earning bachelor's degrees are graduating from humanities programs.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being in on an amazing call with finance expert Suze Orman, who provided sage advice on everything from women in business, to student loans, to saving for your child's education, to home and personal finances.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

A true Renaissance education, our students spend the first few years laying a firm and rich foundation in the development of their curiosity and imagination.

And in 1992, the U.S. Department of Education found that attending to a child's learning style was one of the few strategies that improved achievement of special education students on nationEducation found that attending to a child's learning style was one of the few strategies that improved achievement of special education students on nationeducation students on national tests.

A little extra work and preparation has saved me from a few meltdowns, I'll let you decide from whom, while allowing my homeschooled students to still have plenty of time and attention from me for their education.

Significantly fewer obese students exercised regularly, participated in physical education classes, or were a member of ≥ 1 school sports teams or out - of - school sports teams.

New York has nearly 8,600 fewer active educators than it did five years ago, and the number of SUNY students majoring in education has dropped 50 percent since 2007, fueling fears of a looming teacher shortage across the state.

A few of the education items the governor did propose — such as funding for prekindergarten, mental health services, and after school programs — have the potential to make a positive impact on students»

With few remaining options, de Blasio has opted to repeatedly claim the moral high ground by indicating Senate Republicans are playing politics with the education of over 1 million students.

Which makes the governor one of the few leaders standing between New York's students and the education blob that cares more about shielding teachers than teaching children.

Education commissioner John King and Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch have said they would prefer to see any additional education funding used to benefit all students, rather than just the select few at the schools that win thEducation commissioner John King and Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch have said they would prefer to see any additional education funding used to benefit all students, rather than just the select few at the schools that win theducation funding used to benefit all students, rather than just the select few at the schools that win the grants.

He also claims that New York's education budget is too high, without noting that because of the wide disparities of income in the state, children in wealthy districts benefit from much higher spending and students in poorer districts have to make do with far fewer resources.

«Creating images improved participants» memories and helped them commit fewer errors, regardless of what kind of list we gave them,» said Merrin Oliver, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. student in the educational psychology program in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State.

A further understanding of cognitive development in young students, Orosco said, both by researchers and educators working with English - language learners, could ultimately lead to better reading instruction for all students, improved measurement processes and fewer students unnecessarily being placed in special education classes.

A new report commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and presented by Robin Mellors - Bourne, director of research and intelligence at CRAC: The Career Development Organisation (which runs Vitae), shed light on how English universities recruit Ph.D. students and how they expect supply and demand to develop in the next few years.

Due to an aging scientific workforce within NOAA and fewer students going into the necessary fields of study for fish stock assessment, there could be as many as 180 vacancies within NMFS over the next decade, according to a 2008 report issued by the Departments of Commerce and Education.

Whether students plan to do research at universities or work in the private sector or public institutions, Mobilities & Urban Studies at Aalborg University offers a leading and international oriented academic education focused on mobilities - one of few in fact.

Because it's easy and fewer than 10 percent are caught, according to Ann Lathrop and Kathleen Foss, National Education Association members and authors of Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake - Up Call.

Mike Antonucci, whose Education Intelligence Agency bird - dogs union doings, wrote in June that almost a third of the nation's largest school districts, the 82 with enrollment of 50,000 or more, had fewer students in 2006 than in 2001.

Few topics stir up as much debate in the education sphere as steering public money in the form of vouchers to pay for students to attend private school.

As noted previously, there are multiple factors that impact students» ability to learn, including age, demographics, cultural background and the level of education, to name a few.

Generally speaking, schools of education are not selective, flunk out few if any students for inadequate performance, and see that many of their teacher education graduates receive teacher licenses.

They are designed to cater for all alternative curriculum students — those within the pupil premium category, in exclusion or inclusion, home education or isolation, school refusers, target groups, or those with low literacy / numeracy levels, to mention just a few — and meet the needs of their teaching assistants, senior leadership and parents.

In a new Education Next article «A Bad Bargain: How teacher collective bargaining affects students» employment and earnings later in life,» Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén of Cornell University present the first evidence that students» exposure to a duty - to - bargain law while in elementary and secondary school lowers future earnings and leads to fewer hours worked, reductions in employment, and decreases in labor force participation.

Fewer than six out of 10 students finish college within six years, and higher education institutions could do much more to improve such completion rates, according to a report released last week.

As one of the few dedicated career services offices for education students, we offer you programs and tools that look beyond simply securing a job to focus on career management.

So, I did practice law for a few years (I need to remind myself of that every month as I continue to make my student loan payments 13 years later) before I decided to take the entrepreneurial leap and launch Education Pioneers.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

As a high - school student, I planned someday to join their ranks and to do my small part to make the purpose of public schools educating students, not just providing an education to «those few who want it.»

On Top of the News Budget cuts could lead to fewer options at Florida Virtual 03/24/10 The Gradebook Behind the Headline Florida's Online Option Summer 2009 Education Next The Florida Legislature is considering cutting Florida Virtual School's per - student funding and limiting the length of time students may take to complete courses.

In addition to funding for ELL students, Michigan has a small program for bilingual education, with the goal of fostering both English and another language, but funding for the program was cut in half a few years ago because the state legislature had other priorities.

There are few areas of education so demanding of visionary and courageous leadership and it is reassuring to engage in dialogue with these colleagues who are building pathways so more students can invent the future.»

A report released this spring by the American Heart Association and the National Association for Sport and Physical Education found that, while most states require some kind of physical education, few require students to exercise for a specific amountEducation found that, while most states require some kind of physical education, few require students to exercise for a specific amounteducation, few require students to exercise for a specific amount of time.

The realization that few students knew the origins of Memorial Day inspired Michelle Malchester, a mathematics teacher in Millersville, Maryland to make Memorial Day education a school - wide project.

Reading is essential for all forms of learning and education, but many students complete elementary school with inadequate reading ability, and there has been little progress in the last few decades in helping these students gain necessary reading proficiency.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

For example, she says that there are so few private placements of special education students «not... because the law's processes for securing private placements are inadequate, but because the vast majority of children with disabilities can, and do, receive FAPE in the public schools.»

Extensive inequities in education funding, by which students with the greatest needs receive the fewest funds, still prevail in many parts of the United States; for that reason, state courts continue to have a critical role in ensuring meaningful educational opportunities for all children.

One consequence, said James Ryan, dean of the Ed School, is that «Far too few students receive a high - quality education and far too few are able to reach their potential.»